Think Supply Chain Differently
Background – Order based planning has been now around for roughly ~7 years now and have gone through extensive changes. Order based planning has been designed to handle short term Supply planning and responding to order changes. Order based planning area can be done in standard delivered SAP7 or SAP7F planning areas. What is SAP7[…]
Background – Lot of times during scheduling process individual planned orders are merged to minimize/save setup time, this perfectly make sense from scheduling perspective as your objective is to create a schedule where you minimize changeovers however this can be challenging when these orders are running over multiple days as the output from planning perspective[…]
Background – Over past few years we have implemented IBP Order Based Planning Deployment optimizer for few customers mainly in Consumer goods industries where goods flow and Supply chain networks are complex , during implementation we have faced lot of challenges/hurdles. In this blog, we are trying to provide some insights to those challenges which[…]
The SCOR model is the most widely recognised reference for supply chain processes for any supply chain professional. The emergence of new ways of doing business in the circular economy has been revised lately to the circular SCOR model. What is a circular economy? The transition from a linear model of take, make, and dispose[…]
Recently SAP has released the latest version of SAP IBP (2308). With every release SAP is enhancing supply planning engine capabilities within SAP IBP. SAP Help provides Supply Planning engine comparison within TS or OBP only. 1. SAP Help link for Time Series Supply Planning 2. SAP help link for Order Based Planning In this blog,[…]
In IBP one of the important feature and development over the period of time is about Planning Run Monitor. Those who were waiting for APO SNP Optimizer Input / Output log type of functionality, its finally available in SAP IBP. We can an use the FIORI app to view the detailed input and output data[…]
Order based planning aka Response is a SAP IBP product/module which helps you do operational planning. It provides different form of planning runs which are basically Supply Planning and Deployment run. Order based planning is very tightly integrated to ECC/S4 and until end of last year the main mechanism to bring data to OBP Planning[…]
